Energy Saving Window Treatments for a More Efficient Home

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Nigel Harris
Content Writer
Apr 13, 2025

3 Day Blinds is here to help you become more energy-efficient by choosing the right window treatments for your home. 

Window treatments can greatly impact the energy use in your home, which is a priority for our customers. At 3 Day Blinds we have several options for you to enhance your insulation needs. Did you know a home’s heating and cooling energy is most often lost through its windows? In addition to lowering your heating and cooling costs, our window treatments can help protect your furniture and flooring from damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun.

Types of Energy-Efficient Window Treatments

Most window treatments will provide some energy savings when closed or lowered. For the best in energy efficiency, we recommend our Cellular/Honeycomb Shades.  It is the hexagon-shaped cells of the Cellular/Honeycomb Shade which trap air, keeping rooms warm on a freezing cold winter night and cool on a hot summer afternoon. Hung close to the window, single-, double- and even triple-cell Cellular/Honeycomb Shade will provide the maximum amount of insulation.

Other great energy saving window treatments include our Roman Shades, Woven Wood Shades, Wood Blinds, Faux Wood Blinds and Shutters.  For maximum energy savings combine a blind, or shade, with one of our custom draperies. This can help greatly reduce the amount of energy that passes through your window. Draperies act as an extra layer of insulation for your windows and are a great way to finish off any room.

FAQs About Energy Saving Window Treatments

Upgrading your window coverings can lower utility bills, stabilize indoor temperatures, and protect interiors from UV. Use these answers to choose with confidence.

Cellular shades, layered drapery, and insulated shutters help keep rooms warm in winter and cool in summer. Light-colored fabrics and solar rollers also reduce heat gain during hotter months.

Yes. Cellular or honeycomb shades are among the top options for insulation. Their hexagon-shaped cells trap air, helping keep rooms warm in winter and cool in summer.

Yes. The air gap between layers slows heat transfer and improves comfort near windows.

Yes. Schedules and sensors can close treatments during peak sun or overnight to reduce heating and cooling use.

Yes. Choose light‑filtering cellular fabrics or solar shades with appropriate openness to balance light and efficiency.

Cellular verticals or layered drapery panels perform well while maintaining smooth operation for wide openings.

About the Author

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Nigel Harris
Content Writer
Nigel Harris is a content writer with over 10 years of experience and a 3 Day Blinds Marketing Manager. His work on the marketing team has helped him develop a knowledge window treatments that helps customers better understand products. When he’s not writing, Nigel enjoys music, gardening, and traveling.

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